Hacker News: lasermike026

New comment by lasermike026 in "GPT-4.5"

lasermike026 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:57:03 +0000

I would rather pay for 4.5 by the query.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Alexa+"

lasermike026 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:21:40 +0000

Why would I want Alexa+ if I have ChatGPT? Why isn't Alexa+ already a part of the Amazon Echo? None of this makes any sense.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?"

lasermike026 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:18:29 +0000

I'm intrigued. We should think about this more.

New comment by lasermike026 in "AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'"

lasermike026 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:29:15 +0000

When I see something I don't understand I use AI to help me understand it.

New comment by lasermike026 in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

lasermike026 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:05:18 +0000

How about NO. Fuck off.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Open Deep Research"

lasermike026 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:18:11 +0000

I think I'm in love.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

lasermike026 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:14:51 +0000

Insurance needs to be not-for-profit or a government enterprise. Physical projects and infrastructure should not be started until risk is assessed. Speculators and go-go finance has ought to be constrained. As for myself, I am choosing alternative ways to plan, finance, build, and manage infrastructure project. The current systems is a non-starter for most people under 50.

New comment by lasermike026 in "No Calls"

lasermike026 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:09:08 +0000

Humans talk to people. It's about building a relationship.

New comment by lasermike026 in "“A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]"

lasermike026 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:18:38 +0000

And the engineering takes their crude tools striking inanimate matter while the mathematician and the physics argue over the nature of reality.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)"

lasermike026 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:35:27 +0000

I believe these efforts are very important. If we want this stuff to be practical we are going to have to work on efficiency. Price efficiency is good. Power and compute efficiency would be better.

I have been playing with llama.cpp to run interference on conventional cpus. No conclusions but it's interesting. I need to look at llamafile next.

New comment by lasermike026 in "ChatGPT Pro"

lasermike026 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:34:33 +0000

This might be the actual cost of LLMs. This would change the model considerably.

New comment by lasermike026 in "ChatGPT Pro"

lasermike026 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:51:03 +0000

This doesn't increase my salary and if you are consultant it reduces your billable hours. No thanks.

New comment by lasermike026 in "ChatGPT Pro"

lasermike026 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:49:34 +0000

That doesn't increase my salary. It just mean my boss will expect more work. $2400 a year. No deal.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

lasermike026 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:34:30 +0000

I'm working with models and the costs are ridiculous. $7000 card and 800 watts later for my small projects and I can't imagine how they can make money in the next 5 to 10 years. I need to do more research on hardware approaching that reduces costs and power consumption. I just started experimenting with llama.cpp and I'm mildly impressed.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

lasermike026 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:03:11 +0000

Does anyone know how they are going to make money and turn a profit one day?

New comment by lasermike026 in "NY Times gets 230 wrong again"

lasermike026 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:29:51 +0000

And Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Detecting when LLMs are uncertain"

lasermike026 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 23:56:56 +0000

Currently LLMs do not have executive or error detection cognitive abilities. There is no theory of self or emotional instinct and imperatives. At the moment LLMs are just mindless statical models.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds"

lasermike026 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:34:47 +0000

No one cares. The people profit from this don't care. Virtually everyone who buys these products doesn't care either. If you care and you want to do something about it get on the next spaceship, leave the earth and abandon this unintelligent human species.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems"

lasermike026 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:58:05 +0000

I suppose students need to prepare to defend what they are writing. Also, teachers may need a bit of a demotion when making accusations of plagiarism or generated papers. Teachers at the very least should be able to reasonably prove their accusations. There is a greater problem with tutors writing students papers. If teachers and students worked more closely this wouldn't be an issue.

New comment by lasermike026 in "Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos"

lasermike026 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:52:27 +0000

This is good. It is long over due that we burn the social media sites to the ground.